How to recover windows password without lossing data?

How to recover windows password without lossing data?

Read this article to know more about how to recover Windows password. With the help of Parted Magic(chntpw), you can recover your lost Windows password. In this article, I explained the detail procedure how to recover the lost password.

It is very difficult for us to recover the lost password. If you lost the password for your Windows operating system which is used daily, the situation will be worse. With the help of an application called "chntpw" in the Parted Magic, you can change your lost Windows password.

Chntpw is a software utility for resetting or blanking local passwords used by Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. It does this by editing the SAM database where Windows stores password hashes. You can clear the administration password using this utility.

Follow these steps to change your Windows password.

1. Attach the Live USB to your PC and restart from the login screen, as shown below: 

2. Boot from the Live USB and click on Live (amd64).

4. Open Terminal and Install the chntpw utility with the following command (you'll need a live internet connection for this):
Command: sudo apt install -y chntpw

5 Change the current directory to the config directory:
Command: cd /Windows/System32/config/

6. Edit the SAM database with the command: sudo chntpw -i SAM

7. And type your user account name (i.e., Archit-PC in this example) for the username:

8. Type 1 to clear the user password or 2 to set a new password for the Archit-PC user, then quit and save the changes:

9. If you have been asked for "Write hive files?", type y and press the enter key.

10. Reboot to Windows.

If you selected 1 above, you'll see there's no password required to log in. Just click Sign in and you will be logged in:

That's all there is to it! I hope this will be helpful if you ever need to reset a Windows password.

That's it, Now your Windows Administrator password has been cleared. You can login to your Windows without password.

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